When Microsoft released Windows 8 and killed off the Start Menu and the Start Button, replacing them with a default startup screen featuring a series of big tiles to represent programs, users of its flagship operating system freaked out. And by “freaked out”, I mean that many of them stayed away from it in droves. […]
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Apple has dramatically raised the profile of Apple TV, giving the device its own page and a coveted category position at the very top of its online store’s home page. The change comes along with a slew of rumors about a pending upgrade to Apple TV.
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Michael Connelly has finally found a way to bring his popular detective character Harry Bosch to life, thanks to the shift in the way people watch television. Amazon.com, which has gotten into the business of original TV programming, is producing a pilot based on the Bosch books. Called “Bosch”, the 1-hour episode will be streamed early next month.
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My contacts began logging off and e-mail stopped refreshing around 11 a.m. today. Gmail now appears to be down. My attempts to refresh lead to this error message: We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying against in a few minutes. The error directed me to […]
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he computer beeped to life with a robotic “Hello, I’m Macintosh” at an Apple shareholder meeting in Cupertino, Calif., on Jan. 24, 1984. It was named Macintosh 128K and came with a $2,495 price tag and 128 kilobytes of memory. The Mac has changed shape and sizes — both physically and technologically — several times since its introduction by Steve Jobs.
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A fix is on the way for the so-called “black/white screen of death”, or a spontaneous reboot of an iPhone – in other words, a system crash. The iPhone shuts down and restarts. Owners of a black iPhone see a black screen with a white Apple logo, while owners of white iPhones see a white screen with a black logo. (No word on what those who have the gold iPhone get to see.)
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Borrowing someone else’s HBO Go login isn’t kosher, but a lot of people do it. And while you may be wracked with guilt and live in fear of the cable police pounding on your door one morning, HBO’s CEO has a message for you: Chill out!
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It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the weekly open-comment thread on TechBlog. By now, you know how it works: You leave a comment about anything having to do with personal technology, and I’ll approve it. Others will see what you said, and they’ll respond. Come back later to see what they said, then say […]
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After much deliberation, we’ve decided to stick it out with AT&T a little while longer. But we did dump a fifth, unused line on our family plan . . . and in discovering that we were “eligible” for even more savings than expected. If you’re an AT&T customer, you may be able to save in a similar way.
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